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Ground Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time…
- In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the…
- The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated…
- The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step…
- When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.
- It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies,…
- But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire…
- The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We…
- I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor…
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